Extravagant Quotes

(on his reluctance to expose the mechanics of his acting process) It`s not that I want to pull the shutters down. It`s just that people have such a misconception about what it is I do. They think the character comes from staying in the wheelchair or being locked in the jail or whatever extravagant thing they choose to focus their fantasies on. Somehow, it always seems to have a self-flagellatory aspect to it. But that`s just the superficial stuff. Most of the movies that I do are leading me toward a life that is utterly mysterious to me. My chief goal is to find a way to make that life meaningful to other people.

People say I`m extravagant because I want to be surrounded by beauty. But tell me, who wants to be surrounded by garbage?

The thing is, we`re not extravagant people. It`s just unbelievable the amounts of money we make. But we don`t spend it. It`s too scary to spend it.

We each own one car, and we have a reasonable house. It`s a lovely place to be, but it`s not extravagant.

(On Orson Welles) He was not an extravagant director. I mean, `Warren Beatty` can spend $60 million making Reds (1981) a half hour too long and it crosses nobody`s lips that that`s too much money.

Everybody thinks about Bo Derek as being this extravagant looking lady but she is also a wonderful actress.

I feel that artistic directors are very serious about their work, they have more experience, and their expectations will be very high. About receiving an award, I don`t dare to have extravagant hopes. I am an actress that has never received an award before, he is a director that often receives awards, and my only hope is that I won`t affect him. - on working with artistic director Huo Jian in Qing Ren Jie (2005).

I know his work can be extravagant, ... But the first track on `Want One` is one of the most astonishing things that has come out in years. And I wanted to work with his scope. He has more than one string in his bow.

I got to revisit everything I`d done for the last ten years and I remembered that I just loved doing all that handwork, all that embroidery, anything by hand, ... It`s really extravagant this season.

The latter estimate is certainly an extravagant exaggeration,

Of all the wastes of human ignorance perhaps the most extravagant and costly to human growth has been the waste of the distinctive powers of womanhood after the child-bearing age.

As the most extravagant errors were received among the established articles of their faith, so the most infamous vices obtained in their practice, and were indulged not only with impunity, but authorized by the sanction of their laws.

I was extravagant in the matter of cameras - anything photographic - I had to have the best. But that was to further my work. In most things I have gone along with the plainest - or without.

A physician is not angry at the intemperance of a mad patient, nor does he take it ill to be railed at by a man in fever. Just so should a wise man treat all mankind, as a physician does his patient, and look upon them only as sick and extravagant.

What can you conceive more silly and extravagant than to suppose a man racking his brains, and studying night and day how to fly?

A miser grows rich by seeming poor; an extravagant man grows poor by seeming rich.